Gasometer



July 17, 1928.

1,677,524 K. JAGSCHITZ GASOMETER Filed b 2 1926 1 g.

I Inventor f ame w JIqGscH/Tz flttomeya Patented July 17, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KONRAD JAGSCHITZ, OF MAINZ, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR T MASCHINENFABRIK AUGS--BURG-NUERNBERG A. G., O]? NUREMBERG, BAVARIA, GERMANY, A CORPORATION orGERMANY.

GASOMETER.

Application filed February 26, 1926. Serial No. 90,980.

This invention relates to gasometers of the so-called disk type. Itsobject is to provide means by which a gasometer of this type may beenlarged so as to secure increased capacitv without necessarilyinterrupting the continuity of its operation. Other more specificobjects will appear from the description hereinafter and the features ofnovelty will be pointed out in the claim.

My invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. l is a vertical section of an improved andenlarged gasometer and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

The gas holder shown in Fig. 1 consists of two polygonal sections A andB formed by a num er of flat vertical panels (1-6, the lattersuperimposed upon the fofmer. A strengthening or stiffening member Cisapplied to the section A at the top thereof and a similar stiffeningmember D is applied to the section B also at the top thereof. Eachstiffening member C, D, may consist of truss members forming a latticework. The ugp third of the height of such section. It may per" section Bmay be provided with an a ditional lattice work stiffening member Eextending inwardly. The usual closing disk having rollers and stiffeningmembers is shown at F. The gas holder section or shell member A, withits stiffening member 0, and the closing disk F, together constitute acomplete gas holder and may be constructed to serve as a complete gasholder unit until such time as increased storage capacity becomesnecessary. At such time the section B may be added, preferably berecting a course of panels at the upper e ge of the gas holder A andthen building successive courses of panels in an upward direction.

4 As such courses are fastened into place and made ti ht, the closingdisk F may be move upward y for instance as indicated b dotted lines inFig. 1 so as to give imme iate increase of storage capacity and also toserve as a working platform for the workmen to facilitate the erectionof successive courses of panels. The provision of a stiffening memher isnecessary to givesufiicient resistance to the section A against windpressure. B

providing an exterior stiffening member sue as C, it is made possibleprogressively to instiffening members crease the height of the gasholder, using the disk as a working platform and simultaneouslyincreasing the storage capacity of the gas holder, without the necessityof re- 1 moving any portion of such stiffening member as the workprogresses and thus sacrificing strength and resistance of the structureas a Whole. When the upper shell member section B has been raised to thedesired height, another exterior stiffening member D is preferably addedin order to give added powers of resistance against wind pressure to theenlarged structure. If and when the structure has attained the greatestheight to.

which it may safely be extended or which may be desired, the additionalstrengthening member Eis preferably added.

It. is, .of course, not necessary that the G and D should be 10- theupper portions of the respective sections A and B as each stiffeningmember may be located below the upper line of the section which it isdesigned to rotect, but preferably notmore than onecated exactlv at befound that under certain circumstances and conditions the stiffeningmember C may be sufficient to give to the gas holder composed of theshell member sections A and B the rigidity necessary to resist windpressure and other stresses so that the stiffening members D and E maybe omitted entirely or only one of them may be employed.

As stated above, the stiffening or reinforcing means for shell member Ashould be 10- cated externally thereof so as not to interfere with themovement of the disk F into" the added shell member section B, therebe.-

ing no permanently necessary reinforcing or other members extendingwithin shell memd her A whose removal, upon the addition of shell membersection B, would affect the strength or rigidity of the gasometer.

' Various changes in the specific form shown and described may be madewithin the scope of the claim without spirit of my invention.

I claim: A asometer of the disk type, comprising a she I having amovable disk closure therein, a stiffening member attached to andexdeparting from the ing within said shell member, so that said disk maybe raised without permanent necessary obstruction to a position withinsaid additional section.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

KONRAD J AGSCHITZ.

